{"id":3215,"date":"2020-04-05T17:12:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T17:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/05\/coronavirus-and-secession\/"},"modified":"2020-04-05T17:12:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T17:12:41","slug":"coronavirus-and-secession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/05\/coronavirus-and-secession\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus and Secession"},"content":{"rendered":"

F. H. Buckley maintains<\/a> that the first could hasten the second. <\/span><\/p>\n

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We might have hoped that the pandemic would give us a respite from the nastiness of our politics, but not a bit of it. There\u2019s a mild Trump bounce, as the president takes charge of leading the nation through the crisis, but the Trump paranoia continues unabated. Sec. Azar declared a public health emergency on January 31 and announced travel restrictions to and from China. At the time no one had a clue about how serious a problem it would be, and Joe Biden put the travel ban down to xenophobia and fear-mongering.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Xenophobia! What a senile idiot that Biden is! (Lately senile, he was always an idiot.) Does he know what the word means?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Apart from the White House, the coronavirus was on no one\u2019s mind. Instead, impeachment took up all the air in the room. The House had voted articles of impeachment on December 18, 2019, and this dominated the news until Trump\u2019s acquittal on February 5. Obviously, other issues such as the coronavirus<\/a> took up less of the president\u2019s time than would otherwise have been the case, but if you thought he might have been cut some slack you\u2019d be wrong. Instead, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff want to impanel a Coronavirus Response Commission to investigate the president.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last Wednesday the New York Times<\/a><\/em> provided a map showing the places where people traveled as the virus spread. In the North people stopped moving around by March 24, but in the former Confederate states people continued to travel more than two miles from home. Since infection rates are far lower in those areas, that\u2019s not surprising. The Times<\/em> also failed to mention that people also have a greater reason to travel in the Deep South, where stores are further apart. The story was thus a gratuitous swipe at a region that the paper\u2019s readers could be expected to hate.<\/span><\/p>\n

We used to be better than this. But since Donald Trump\u2019s election a poison has entered America\u2019s soul. It\u2019s driven us apart and made the idea of a breakup more inviting. Non sumus qualis eramus<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

F.H. Buckley is a professor at Scalia Law School and the author of<\/em> American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I agree, except for the penultimate sentence. The poison has been present for a long time in the American soul. Trump has merely made its presence more evident by standing up and fighting for the conservative cause, something that milque-toast Mitt and his ilk were unwilling and incapable of doing.  Trump hasn't driven us apart; we already were apart. But by taking up the fight in earnest, Trump has driven the Left mad and forced them to show their true colors.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The Latin sentence translates as "We are not as we were." It is Buckley's adaptation of Non sum qualis eram.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

F. H. Buckley maintains that the first could hasten the second.  We might have hoped that the pandemic would give us a respite from the nastiness of our politics, but not a bit of it. There\u2019s a mild Trump bounce, as the president takes charge of leading the nation through the crisis, but the Trump … Continue reading “Coronavirus and Secession”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-matters","category-secession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}